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Title Author Year
The British Prison Ship Philip Freneau 1780
Beat! Beat! Drums! Walt Whitman
A Certain Point Edgar Kunz 2026
The Iraqi Nights Dunya Mikhail 2016
1943 Nicholas Christopher 2025
[You were so small in my hands] Mosab Abu Toha 2025
The Cataclysm Ameen Rihani 1921
Little Lead Soldiers  Giannina Braschi 1988
Emancipation Paul Laurence Dunbar 1890
Spring in War-Time Sara Teasdale 2018
The War in Colors Dunya Mikhail 2017
The New Day Fenton Johnson 1922
The American Flag Nicolás Heredia y Mota 1892
Not the Pilot Walt Whitman
Peace Henry Vaughan 1650
By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame Walt Whitman 1867
Facing US Amanda Johnston 2018
Before the Deployment Jehanne Dubrow 2010
War Photograph Kate Daniels 2002
Break of Day in the Trenches Isaac Rosenberg 2018

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